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our economy, our economy is an internal one it is dependent upon domestic production. about 10% at the most of our economy is dependent on foreign trade. it's not that all of the economy-- you see, the issue that i have is this. sometime, some people think that they own the world. they think that-- they think that the lives of the whole world is dependent upon th. they think that if they impose sanctions that people will die. it's not so. they are mistaken. iran is an advanced country. it's powerful. and it has an internal economy. we produce and we consume. >> so you say they have had no affect at all, these sanctions. your people are not hurting at all. >> i didn't say that. i didn't say that. are you changing what i said. i said after all, there are problems that come along with sanctions. but if one thinks that these sanctions can cause iran to surrender, they are mistaken. >> rortleffinson who you kn about and you have been asked about before, is anything that could happen a trade or something that would allow him to come back to the united states. >> well, last y
our economy, our economy is an internal one it is dependent upon domestic production. about 10% at the most of our economy is dependent on foreign trade. it's not that all of the economy-- you see, the issue that i have is this. sometime, some people think that they own the world. they think that-- they think that the lives of the whole world is dependent upon th. they think that if they impose sanctions that people will die. it's not so. they are mistaken. iran is an advanced country. it's...
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>> so it was nch the mid-'90s, it was a disaster in the economy of russia. >> rose: you were a financial expert. >> and you know like it was the station where, like different companies in the cities they were on the verge of dying. >> rose: right. >> and we were young, ambitious, risky and we were not afraid of nothing. so we bought a very bad enterprise. >> rose: you made a big bet? >> yes, because at the time we did our best in order to find partners abroad. nobody came because it was too risky. we spent a lot of money, we spent a lot of hours, two and three hours a day, now we can show that this, for example, entity are one of the most profitable entities in the field production of nickel and platinum and palladium. but it was risky at the time because we have debt, more than one year to know the company. can't imagine this. and in the far north people they have no opportunity to receive salary for more than a half year. it was like really a disaster. it was a great disaster. and really we're very proud. >> rose: with so much at stake it all together was not cessarily safe, either. >>
>> so it was nch the mid-'90s, it was a disaster in the economy of russia. >> rose: you were a financial expert. >> and you know like it was the station where, like different companies in the cities they were on the verge of dying. >> rose: right. >> and we were young, ambitious, risky and we were not afraid of nothing. so we bought a very bad enterprise. >> rose: you made a big bet? >> yes, because at the time we did our best in order to find partners...
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so as to make the economy more vibrant and society more just. and this was a tough treatment which, by the way, i think is not over. >> rose: for italy? >> for italy, yes. >> rose: the focus today is, obviously, on spain. >> yes. >> rose: what's going to happen? >> spain is doing very deep and serious things in terms of budgetary control, and in terms of statutory reforms. i think spain is decidedly on the right path. and we'l will come out of it. and will come out ey-- i mean ce out of the risky zone. and you see italy, spain, it's important to look at each of our countries individually, and it is also important to see clearly that we are all part and parcel of a wider thing call the euro zone and the european union. and it's not enough-- it is imperative, but it's not enough that each of our countries puts its own house in order. we also need to have a better governance of the whole, not only of the parts. and this is happening month after month because the european union as a whole is improving, is now more aware than it was one year ago, say
so as to make the economy more vibrant and society more just. and this was a tough treatment which, by the way, i think is not over. >> rose: for italy? >> for italy, yes. >> rose: the focus today is, obviously, on spain. >> yes. >> rose: what's going to happen? >> spain is doing very deep and serious things in terms of budgetary control, and in terms of statutory reforms. i think spain is decidedly on the right path. and we'l will come out of it. and will...
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and what i can tell you is our experience is we have strangled our economy. so our debt is going up, when your economy shrinks by definition your debt to gdp ratio, your debt to national income ratio goes up instead of down. >> when we come to the euro zone before i leave it, it will survive intact? >> i think it will, yes. the bad news is, it is going to muddle along, not come soaring forward. >> and to cam forward, soaring forward it has to do what? >> it has to two do two things it has to mutualize debt so the confidence we have talked about earlier. >> mutualized debt means everybody -- >> there is joint and several liability for debt in the currency zone and the truth is, greece is two percent of the euro zone economy. >> right. >> and it should never have been allowed to become a threat to the global economy, and it has become a threat to the global economy, because it is not clear the other countries of the euro -- >> paying back part of greek's debt. >> yes the short answer there is no escape from sharing the burden -- >> you are a politician in germa
and what i can tell you is our experience is we have strangled our economy. so our debt is going up, when your economy shrinks by definition your debt to gdp ratio, your debt to national income ratio goes up instead of down. >> when we come to the euro zone before i leave it, it will survive intact? >> i think it will, yes. the bad news is, it is going to muddle along, not come soaring forward. >> and to cam forward, soaring forward it has to do what? >> it has to two do...